Transport ships, often referred to simply as transports, are ships designed to carry large amounts of soldiers and equipment to battlefields across Cosmoria. They can touch down on a planet’s surface and unload entire battalions worth of personnel. Since they make for such high-priority targets, they often travel with their own fleets to protect them.
Characteristics
Transport ships are often quite bulky, forgoing any streamlining in favor of a more utilitarian design. This lets them take advantage of their large interior space, which contains housing and facilities for thousands of troops and vehicles. On the outside, these vessels are usually well-armored to better protect their precious cargo.
Since their primary goal is the movement of soldiers and supplies, most transports are either lightly armed or not armed at all. As such, they must travel between worlds with their own escorts in case enemy fleets decide to attack. Any weapons that transports possess will often be suited to fending off fighters instead of actual warships.
Despite being such large vessels, transports are still capable of landing on a planet. They often come equipped with specialized landing gear that lets them touch down on a multitude of different surfaces. Some of them can even land in water, disgorging a large amount of aquatic units into the field.
Notable Examples
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